In order to escape the German bombings during the Second World War, the young window Francesca (Mariangela Melato) hides with her three daughters in her country house. Francesca loves anything coming from The US, namely music and cinema. One day an American plane lands near her villa because of a technical breakdown and she falls in love, returned, with the pilot. Once the plane is repaired the pilot flies away leaving the woman with her dreams and memories.

LOCATION The film is mostly set in two houses of the lower Po valley: Villa Sarocco in Ro and Villa Giglioli, ancient venetian style villa dating back to XV century and refurbished in the XVIII and XIX centuries in the countryside between Serravalle and Ariano along the Po di Goro.